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DURANGO, Colo. -- Mercury StoreCard now enables local merchants to offer their customers a gift, reward, mobile payments and promotions card all in one product. Mercury Payment Systems , a provider of payment technology and services, is making ...

The
Accenture
study, “The promise of digital entrepreneurs: creating 10 million youth jobs in the G20 countries,” analyzes the views of more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and highlights the barriers that are limiting the potential of entrepreneurs to create jobs and ...

For many runners, there's nothing more obnoxious than trying to figure out a way to carry basic necessities with you while you pound the pavement for a few miles. A Colorado startup sought to solve that problem, and with a $10,000 investment and product in-hand, showed up to a March 2012 runner's exposition to demonstrate their solution. "It sold out practically immediately," said Mia Do, product developer and co-founder of FlipBelt. "[People] were so excited about it.

A local Colorado industry group, the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association (CCIA), said this week that it has launched a new competition to spur the development of safer, more enviromentally responsible, quieter, and cleaner technology for the energy development industry.... (more)

COLORADO – Colorado tech companies in the second quarter of 2014 raised $191 million in deal funding, nearly twice as much raised in the same quarter last year, according to a report by Built in Colorado.

Fewer venture capital deals were done in Colorado in the second quarter than in the first, but the deals were larger, according to a report released late Thursday.

The state recorded 20 venture deals in the second quarter, down from 24 in the first quarter, but the amount invested rose to $150.8 million in the latest quarter, up from $112.8 million in the first quarter, said The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters.

The Durango Education Foundation has presented Durango School District 9-R a check for $114,272, the proceeds from its spring fundraising campaign.Foundation donations to the district this year, including reserve funds, total $202,023.Distributions include $11,425 to organizations that support 9-R students and...

LOVELAND – Unmanned drone aircraft are promising to radically change the future in many ways, and one major avenue of that change will likely be in the field of public safety.

On Thursday, nearly 100 law enforcement, fire and emergency service workers learned about drone benefits and challenges on the near horizon during a public safety symposium on small unmanned aircraft and robotics held in the Budweiser Events Center at Larimer County’s Ranch fairgrounds complex.

The free half-day symposium, hosted by the City of Loveland, Unmanned Experts and Loveland-based RoadNarrows Robotics, drew public safety personnel from ...

From Boulder to Colorado Springs, startups are popping up and tech businesses are rapidly expanding. Colorado Springs was recently named the top city for small businesses by the National Journal, though Denver recently got into a tiff with tech companies over an outdated software tax. So why is Colorado the best for your business? Here, three Colorado startups talk about why they each love their own tech community.

There is so much data being collected each day, but it’s up to nimble companies to develop innovative ways for how to take advantage of it. Here are three Colorado startups incorporating data into their creative tech solutions:

Valen Analytics

Why they do what they do: Valen Analytics, which provides proprietary data, analytics and predictive modeling to help insurance carriers, was founded in 2002.

Collocation, managed services and cloud provider in North America, ViaWest has announced the availability of its Compark data centre, located in the Denver Technology Centre near southeast Denver . With a suite of managed and cloud services, Compark ...

BROOMFIELD – Webroot, a market leader in cloud-based, real-time Internet threat detection, announced it is expanding its enterprise-class security solutions with the introduction of BrightCloud Security Services for Enterprise.

The product is a new portfolio of services that makes Webroot’s threat intelligence available through integration with popular network security and management platforms.

Building the system and getting the companies commercialized 1584_ 7/14/14 - EY Entrepreneur Finalist Jeff Pruitt is founding partner and CEO of Tallwave a venture development and venture capital firm. Jeff said they've connected a consulting firm, sleeves-rolled-up, hands-on, taking companies through the validation process, creating product / market fit and then actually commercializing companies on one side of the business - the venture capital on the other side.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. has a new technology office in England and is looking to be part of the United Kingdom’s push to expand its space capabilities. The office at the new UK Space Gateway is an off-shoot of the London-based Lockheed Martin UK division of defense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), which is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

A Colorado Springs couple have put together Colorado Springs' first TEDx conference, modeled after the popular Technology, Entertainment and Design conferences held nationwide since 1984 to foster the sharing of ideas and spur creativity.

Microsoft has the backing of a strong partner base in companies such as Accenture and Avanade that can help bring their solutions to market amid what Virani called the mobile "revolution" in which employees are clamoring to bring their devices to work and ...